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While the problem with the curtains was swiftly resolved, it was, as Churchill later said, an encounter that ‘reveals one aspect of the gulf between the Soviet way of life and that of the Western powers’.
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Sir Alexander Cadogan of the Foreign Office came to the conclusion that ‘Molotov had all the grace and conciliation of a totem pole.”

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Hitler and Stalin
Laurence Rees
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